L. Peter Deutsch

L Peter Deutsch or Peter Deutsch (born Laurence Peter Deutsch) is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript interpreter.

Deutsch's other work includes the definitive Smalltalk implementation that, among other innovations, inspired Java just-in-time technology 15 or-so years later. He also wrote the PDP-1 Lisp 1.5 implementation, Basic PDP-1 LISP, "while still in short pants" between the age of 12-15 years old.

He is also the author of a number of RFCs.

Deutsch received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973 [cite paper |last=Deutsch |first=Laurence Peter |authorlink=L. Peter Deutsch |title=An interactive program verifier |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |date=June 1973] . He has done stints at Xerox PARC and Sun Microsystems. In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Deutsch changed his legal first name from Laurence to L on September 12, 2007. His published work and other public references before that time generally use the name L. Peter Deutsch (with a dot after the L).Fact|date=July 2008

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External links

*RFCs authored or co-authored by L. Peter Deutsch: RFC 190, RFC 446, RFC 550, RFC 567, RFC 606, RFC 1950, RFC 1951 and RFC 1952
* [http://devlinux.org/deutsch-interview.html L. Peter Deutsch in conversation with Stig Hackvän]